dollars. iowa gets a lot of benefit out of going first when we pick a president. the next election is still a long way off, thank god, but maybe it's time for them to start explaining why they deserve to keep going first. now it is time for "the last president obama made news last night on "the tonight show" telling jay leno he will go to russia, and today the white house told vladimir putin that he will not be meeting one-on-one with president obama. >> the big chill between the u.s. and russia may be heading for the deep freeze. >> putin's shelter of edward snowden -- >> no snowden, no meeting? >> comes at a price. >> he has officially canceled plans to meet putin. >> they slipped back into the cold war mentality. that's the past. we have to think about the

future. >> it's a totally moderate response. >> snowden was one part of this puzzle. >> edward snowden, missile defense, human rights to be continued. >> thousands of people rallied last night in tunisia's capital. yemen says it has foiled an al qaeda plot. >> massive fire -- >> russia's anti-gay laws. >> that controversial law that bans gay relationships. >> talking about the protection of american athletes abroad and a lot of concern how it will impact the olympics. >> i think putin and russia have a big stake at making it work. >> we have athletes who have been training for that moment. >> the relationship has to get back on track. >> today it got a lot chillier. >> are we headed toward a modern day cold war? >> cold war mentality. [ playing the russian national anthem ] >> president obama told jay leno

he will attend the g-20 summit in russia next month in st. petersburg, but jay carney announced today that the president will not stop in moscow on the way for a scheduled one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. "given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights in civil society in the last 12 months, we have informed the russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda. russia's disappointing decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum was also a factor." last night on "the tonight show with jay leno," president obama discussed the snowden factor. >> were you surprised that

russia granted snowden asylum? >> i was disappointed, because, you know, even though we don't have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally we have tried to respect if there's a law breaker or an alleged law breaker in their country, we evaluate, and we try to work with them. they didn't do that with us, and in some ways it's reflective of some underlying challenges that we've had with russia lately. >> right. >> a lot of what's been going on hasn't been major breaks in the relationship, and they still help us on supplying our troops in afghanistan. they're still helping us on counterterrorism work. they were helpful after the boston bombing in that

investigation, and so there's still a lot of business we can do with them, but there are times where they slip back into cold war thinking and a cold war mentality, and what i consistently say to them and what i say to president putin is, that's the past, and, you know, we've got to think about the future. >> the foreign policy adviser for putin said today "we are disappointed by the u.s. administration's decision to cancel the visit of president obama to moscow planned in early september. it is clear that the decision is due to the situation around the former u.s. special services employee snowden, which we did not create." joining me now, krystal ball, ari melber and julia ioffe at "the new republic," previously a moscow based correspondent for foreign policy and "the new yorker." julia, the -- to start with the snowden factor. for that the russians statement to say this is a situation which we did not create is, of course, a lie. they were in complete control of the outcome of what would happen to snowden the second he arrived

at that airport. but the administration, are you surprised that the administration included it in their official statement about the decision? >> i want to start actually with the first part of your statement. i don't agree with you that it's a lie. i think that snowden showing up in russia whether or not the russians knew about it in advance or not, they couldn't then let him go once the bolivian plane was downed in austria. they saw that -- initially they wanted him to get out of the country. they saw very quickly that he was becoming a headache for them but once the u.s. and u.s. allies in europe downed the bolivian president's plane because they feared that snowden was on board this was really nothing that the russians could do. >> julia, hold on. you aren't seriously suggesting that vladimir putin and the russian government did not have complete, total, absolute

control over the outcome of edward snowden entering that airport in moscow. there wasn't anything that prevented them from doing anything other than what you may be suggesting is their own sense of the public image of it and how it would play for them. but they had and still have complete power over his every breath in that country. >> now they do but i think you do overestimate the russians. i think in general people who haven't been to russia tend to overestimate their abilities. >> julia, i don't want to get caught up in this for too long but they control that airport completely. >> i know but -- i don't think -- >> they could have sent him out of that country immediately upon his landing in the airport. >> no. >> they controlled every second and putin controlled every second that he was -- >> i don't think putin controlled personally. we overestimate putin's abilities but i think that they really -- once that bolivian airplane was grounded in europe,

there was nothing that they could do. they couldn't let them leave and then allow him to get taken back to the u.s. and potentially face the death penalty. it looks terrible at home. >> he doesn't face the death penalty, julia. >> this was the trope in russia that the media -- >> let's get it straight. you're saying within the shape of the russians' own propaganda, they could not violate the propaganda myth that they created about this thing which the russians and putin chose to create. >> i don't think putin is the one creating that. putin doesn't sit there and personally write the, you know, scripts for the news anchors. putin sends a certain signal and then the system then interprets it as it does. i think -- we're -- just like obama doesn't control everything that happens in the u.s., putin doesn't control everything that happens -- >> very different. julia -- >> i know --

>> you are getting absurd now. we're getting absurd. putin does, indeed, in fact controls -- >> does he? have you reported out of russia? >> they do control some news outlets in russia. >> no, the kremlin controls it -- no, no, no. >> there's no comparison. >> the kremlin owns them but you can't say that putin whispers in the ear of -- >> the kremlin owns them, julia. we'll come back to you. krystal, the notion that snowden was the deciding factor here is something that's being debated a lot today. it seems like the white house and the administration had a lot of incentive to actually look for a reason to not have this summit since there really was at this point very little to talk about. >> yeah, i think that's right. snowden was a convenient excuse. there was a lot of pressure actually on the president to not have this one-on-one summit with putin as a result of snowden. but in reality there wasn't a

lot to talk about. we haven't been able to make progress on things like syria, the crashes we have been able to collaborate on such as the transit routes from afghanistan. there wasn't any more progress to be made there so there was a risk for the president of having a one-on-one summit and really having nothing come out of that so i think it was sort of a no-brainer then at this point to go ahead and cancel that summit. >> ari, the last one-on-one with putin didn't go so well and they had those photographs coming out of these guys, obviously having run out of things to say to each other. >> yeah, i mean i think the issue here for a lot of diplomacy is you can only use words and rhetoric and outreach so much so all the discussion of a reset didn't get you over those die vergennes, the main thing what happened at least the obama presidency here is a renewal of a similar framework from nun lugar that provided some nonproliferation baseline

between the two countries that's an issue that actually senator obama had worked on before his presidency. other than that, you don't have a lot here so, yes, a lot of observers would say tensions were already high and cooperation had frayed long before this issue. i think the legal piece, if you want to look at it, is the lack of an extradition treaty allows everyone to throw the game around. we know from history, of course, lawrence, there are times when countries use the absence of an extradition treaty to say they can't do anything, and there are times in its absence we deport or send people over there specifically. we've declined to send some people to russia in the past on our end, that would be like the reverse of the situation, but we've also sent accused nazi war criminals back to russia who were executed there so it does work both ways when great powers want to play the blame game. >> julia, what do you see coming now after this decision in the future of the relationship?

>> i think there's going to be a re-evaluation on both sides which i would say should have happened a long time ago, we had the reset. now this is the reset of the reset. we've totally -- i think both sides have totally exhausted the old agenda. arms control -- well, mostly arms control, they don't see eye to eye on the middle east and never will. there's not much left to talk about on syria or iran until things, you know, really get -- really change there on the ground. what's left to talk now is asia, the arctic, reducing nuclear weapons capacity, but i don't think either side is ready to talk about especially not the russians who have been as we started getting into there have become kind of prisoner to this nascent neo-cold war mentality. >> julia ioffe, krystal ball and ari melber, thanks for joining me.

george takei is here. he says we should move the russian olympics. let us know what you think on twitter and facebook and later tonight i'm going to talk about rush limbaugh's weight. unless you can tweet me some good reasons why i shouldn't between now and then. now i know we're not supposed to talk about his weight. i know it's impolite and i know it's taken many people to be insensitive not just to rush's weight problem but to all people with weight problems, but i certainly don't intend for it to be taken that way. i will be talking, if i do, about no one but rush limbaugh because when rush limbaugh of all people attacks michelle obama for her anti-obesity campaign, do we really have to ignore the elephant in the room, really? all right. you be the judge. i will do later. in "the rewrite."

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a story that is just shocked me and i'm surprised it's not bigger is russia literally rounding up homosexuals. >> yes. >> i mean, to me this is germany in 1933. you know, i mean i think you and i were of that generation when i was in school, they never told you how did that happen. well, okay. >> right. >> hitler becomes dictator and rounds up all the jews. this is how it starts. >> that was jay leno last night here in this studio. can you watch the entire interview on our website thelastword.msnbc.com. george takei wants to move the olympics out of russia. i'm not sure i agree with him. he'll have a few minutes to convince me. that's coming up next. [ school bell rings ]

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♪ hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through september 3rd. you know, i think putin and russia have a big stake in making sure the olympics work and i think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the olympics, yeah, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently. their athletes. they're there to compete and if russia wants to uphold the olympic spirit then every judgment should be made on the track or in the swimming pool or on the balance beam and people's sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with it. >> in his latest blog post my next guest george takei writes

"nations are not judged merely on their might but also by how they treat their most vulnerable. russia's din cal and deplorable actions again the lgbt community have given license to hate groups within its borders to act with violence and impunity against a group based solely on whom they were born to love. it now seeks to spread that hate abroad through its tainted olympics. the ioc must do the right thing, protect its athletes and the fans and move their 2014 winter olympics out of russia." more than 62,000 people agree with george takei signing a new petition calling for the winter olympics to be moved to vancouver where the games were held in 2010. joining me now for a last word exclusive actor and gay rights activist george takei. george, thank you very much. >> lawrence, good to be with you. >> i read your blog post today. it makes a strong case but the

practicalities of this, nbc covering the olympics already heavily invested in the russian location. everybody's heavily invested in the russian location. is there enough time? is it even possible logistically to get it moved to vancouver. >> yes, the clock is ticking, however, we must get it out of russia. it is an intolerable situation. they've stated sternly that the laws will be enforced which has given license to hooligans and thugs to humiliate -- >> we've seen some video that have already. >> yes, so it's a terrible situation. vancouver can handle it. they have the facilities there. the hotel capacity and i've been flooded with canadians writing me saying, we will embrace you with open arms, the olympics. it's the ioc that's got to stand up on this because they bear a huge responsibility.

you know, there are athletes that are gays or lesbians and their supporters are gay or lesbians too and they are being put in danger and if something horrific happens and it's very likely given the kind of history of what's been happening there, the responsibility is great. the ioc can move the olympics out. there is enough time to do that yet. the clock is ticking. what was it that a quote from edmond burke. all that's needed to let evil triumph is for good men to keep silent. the members of the ioc are good people i like to think. but they also have to be responsible people for what might happen. the other thing here is, the ioc is giving an international platform to putin. we need to learn from history. in 1936 the berlin olympics happened.

three years before that hitler came to power and began this gradual campaign of horror against the jewish people, and he got legitimacy throughout the word, he got more power, he got that status and that's precisely what we're giving putin with the olympics being held there. >> in the past there's been talk of boycotting for different reasons. we tried that once. >> it won't work. >> and greg lew gain this who was a victim of that boycott, gay athlete, doesn't want to see a boycott. this is a different idea. this is -- >> right. >> look, vancouver has the facility. they've used it already. >> right. >> for exactly this. just a couple of years ago. just dust it up, it's ready to go. you say in here in your piece today something that's directed at nbc, the sponsors, everybody involved. trust me, if you are a corporate brand, you do not want to be associated with the sochi olympics.

>> it's going to be a horrific olympics. it's almost predictable now and all these corporations including nbc which is going to be broadcasting it is going to be spending millions of dollars and trying to get public goodwill, all that is going to be dissipated and the olympics is going to besmirch the olympics name as well as all the corporate brands. it is in their interest to move it out of russia. >> i happen to have, george, as we sit here in an nbc building in burbank, i happen to have nbcuniversal's official statement on the matter which i will read to your great disappointment, i can guarantee you. "nbcuniversal strongly supports equal rights and the fair treatment for all people. the spirit of the olympic games is about unifying people and countries through the celebration of sport, and it is our hope that spirit will prevail." that's it.

that's all they got. >> it's moved out of russia. i trust that nbc will move with the olympics to the appropriate venue. nbc is made up of good people. and they should not -- >> you don't have to say that. >> no, no i -- >> i agree with that. i know a lot of good people who are involved in trying to deal with this terrible situation that they're in. >> this is the situation of good versus evil. >> it is. >> it is evil that's happening there. and we must not play into putin's game. >> all right. you had me at edmond burke. i'm going to sign -- listen, i mean you've got -- here's what i love about what you're doing. you have a practical idea. you're not saying this is wrong, don't do it, boycott, you're saying -- vancouver is ready to go and they now to move and move fast. we all know how to get there. let's change the plane ticks to

vancouver, get the hotel reservations up will. >> canadians want us. >> i'm signing the petition right after the show. george, thanks for teaching us once again. >> i hope we have your signature. >> you got it. we'll do it. tomorrow, dustin lance black will be right here right in the george takei chair urging the entertainment industry to take a stand against russia's anti-gay policies. and later the campaign for mayor of new york continues on its strange road. and, of course, rush limbaugh is in tonight's rewrite unless i see some reason not to on facebook or twitter, i am going to be forced to talk about rush's -- rush limbaugh's weight problem. [ female announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain

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in the spotlight tonight the new republican civil war. now in the dog days of summer. mitt romney is back and butting heads with conservatives once again. in his first fund-raiser address since losing ace presidential campaign, mitt romney weighed in on the tea party push to shut down the government until the affordable care act is defunded. mitt romney said "emotion is understandably at play in washington among some of our fellow republicans. i badly want obamacare to go away and stripping it of funds has appeal but we need to exercise great care about any talk of shutting down government. what would come next, when

soldiers respect paid, when seniors care for their medicare and social security and when the fbi is off duty? i'm afraid that in the final analysis obamacare would get its funding, our party would suffer in the next elections and the people of the nation would not be happy." mitt romney also weighed in on 2016 saying "i do have some advice for us as a party. i know i lost. i'm probably not the first person you would ask for advice." that's correct, mitt. "but because we all learn from our mistakes i may have a thought or two of value, staying smart also means backing candidates that can win. my guess is that every one of the contenders would be better than whoever the democrats put up. but there will only be one or perhaps two who actually could win the election in november,

think it through stay smart. "sam stein. i want you to stay smart throughout this entire segment, okay? you've done it before. you've done it before. >> no, i haven't. never made it through a segment. >> so, sam, senior adviser to the republican tea party caucus on the hill, mitt romney, wants them to just calm down, just calm down, you guys, think this through, it won't work for us. will that kind of message get through if delivered by romney and others who have their ears? >> i think -- i think it's the right message but the wrong messenger. i think what tends to be the case with losing presidential candidates is that the party from which they came quickly abandoned them as losers n this case mishaps to have the virtue of being right and he's not the only one talking about it in these terms. i think, first of all, it

wouldn't work. the majority of the funds for obamacare are mandatory and you can't simply stop obamacare by shutting down the government, this congressional research proved it. second, the problem they face right now they're actively the ones courting the shutdown. it's not like we're having a shutdown and who can blink first. when it comes time to lay the blame it's obviously going to the gop and i think if you have those two in combination you under up with a very bad hand and doesn't take mitt romney or any other genius to point it out. >> let's listen to what paul ryan, the other loser in the last presidential campaign has to say about this. >> sure. >> you know, rather than sort of swinging for the fences and trying to take this entire law out with discretionary spending there are more effective ways of achieving that goal. we think we can do better by delaying the law. we've had votes to delay other parts of it. democrats have supported us in that so i think there will be a

bitter strategy to actually achieve our goal if ultimately delaying it ultimately replacing obamacare. >> sam, what is your sense of paul ryan's effectiveness as someone within the republican caucus on the hill who can convince them on the way forward? certainly it's not as strong as his power is not as great as it once was. >> yeah, but you have to imagine he still has a lot of sway in the house. he is the budget committee chairman. he has respect for authorizing the budgets around which the house republican conference coalesced and, you know, he's generally regarded as a, you know, bright person on these sort of legislative strategy issues. i think he's right. he has the virtue of being right in another respect. in two regards have the republican party been able to delay it like putting pressure on the nfl, advertising the benefits of the law and availability of the exchanges. the other way is totally

irrespective of the congress. that is through the states where republican governors have rejected medicaid expansion. those are the main two vehicles to which the republican party has been able to sort of take a piece of flesh out of the law. hasn't delayed it -- i mean hasn't totally upended it, delayed it. >> reporter: of ruined its effectiveness but paul ryan is right. >> sam stein, doing mitt romney proud and staying smart. thank you very much. >> i do what i can. >> beautifully done. thank you, sam. >> take care. coming up, anthony weiner is in trouble tonight for something he said about one of the other candidates for mayor of new york and in "the rewrite," sarah palin and rush limbaugh of all people attacked michelle obama for her successful anti-obesity campaign and invited to you tweet me a reason to leave rush limbaugh's own weight problem out of this discussion and so far, seriously, i'm looking at

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there is a new report out that michelle obama's new anti-obesity campaign is more successful than anyone expected it to be since we've never had real progress in that area before, but, that, of course, does not mean that the obama haters will any way give michelle obama credit for this, and one of her attackers on the matter of her anti-obesity campaign is the obese rush limbaugh and so he's in "the rewrite." michelle obama is in "the rewrite" and "the rewrite" is next. eeting.

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michelle obama is trying to rewrite the lives of poor children in a way that no one else of her prominence has ever really tried to do. certainly no one in the white house has ever tried. first there was this. >> how about replacing all of that soda and those sugary drinks with water? [ applause ] kids won't like it at first, trust me, but they'll grow to like it. or deciding that they don't get dessert with every meal as i tell my kids, dessert is not a right. [ laughter ] or they don't get it every day or just being more thoughtful about how we prepare our food. baking instead of frying. i know. it's -- don't shoot me. and cutting back on those portion sizes. >> there was michelle obama

speaking to the naacp three years ago trying to get the message through to poor families about the eating habits of their children and then there was this. >> where's the ingredients? >> this is in honor of michelle obama the other day when she said we should not have dessert? the only way sarah palin could react to what the first lady said was to lie about it. michelle obama did not say kids should not have dessert. she said not can every meal and now comes this on the front page of today's "new york times." the obesity rate among preschool age children from poor families fell in 19 states and the united states territories between 2008 and 2011, federal health officials said tuesday, the first time a major government report has shown a consistent pattern of decline for low-income children after decades of rising rates, children from poor families have had some of the nation's highest

rates of obesity. in other words, the first lady's campaign is working. parents of poor children are listening to her. parents of all children are listening to michelle obama and the children are healthier for it. the first lady keeps finding imaginative ways to keep parents and kids' attention on the problem of childhood obesity. >> ladies and gentlemen, honor the first lady's let's move campaign and to encourage parents everywhere to get up and get moving with their kid, we present to you the evolution -- ♪ ♪ >> i'm just wondering if you can do more push-ups than i can do. >> it depends how your back is. i know you get these back issues. >> no, no.

no, no. >> 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21. >> whoo! >> i want to get some exercise so i'm going to talk around "sesame street." >> mrs. obama exercises, elmo wants to exercise too. yay, exercise. >> if you want your child too have healthy habits practice healthy habits too because you're your child's best role model. >> obama haters, of course, have been unimpressed. >> take her anti-obesity thing that she's on, she's on this kick, right? what she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families and what we should eat. >> yeah, that's right. we cannot trust all parents to make good eating decisions for

their children. for example, would you trust this guy to prepare healthy meals for his children? well, luckily you don't have to because he has never had any children. if rush limbaugh had children, it is virtually guaranteed that his children would eat as badly as he does. now, no one could force rush limbaugh or any parents to make healthier food choices for their children. we cannot force the parents to make healthy choices but we can encourage them to. and no one has ever done a better job of that than michelle obama. now, speaking of rush, we know he's an obama hater, but there's just no way he would have joined the obama haters attack on what would turn out to be michelle obama's successful campaign against childhood obesity, i

mean, he's like, you know, in no position to, you know -- if you know what i mean, and if you don't know what i mean, what i mean is rush is a morbidly obese guy. that is a clinical term. morbid obesity. that is a physician's accurate, nonjudgmental description of rush limbaugh's height and weight. morbid obesity is defined as being 50% to 100% heavier than the ideal body weight or 100 pounds above the ideal body weight and rush meets both of those definitions for morbid obesity and so if you're expecting that this is the spot where you hear the morbidly obese rush limbaugh attack the first lady for fighting childhood obesity, if you think that's what's going to happen now, that means you know exactly how rush limbaugh rolls. >> i'm sure you're aware that nutritionists at large, michelle obama, is urging, demanding, advocating, requiring what

everybody can and can't eat and demanding everybody eat cardboard and tofu. no calories, no fat, no nothing. got to stop obesity. >> okay, i know what you're thinking. rush didn't stop there. he's not that restrained. and, of course, you're right because rush is really about only one thing, excess. he is a trafficker of excess in all things, calorie, words, everything. now, i am going to let you listen to a little bit more of what rush had to say but i urge you, i urge you to listen to it for the outrageous comedy bit that it is. please don't make the mistake of taking it seriously the way rush does. he is a joke. performing a joke that he doesn't know is a joke. it is as if some rush hater slipped him this script to read to humiliate him and his blind obama hatred made him blind to how breathtakingly ridiculous these words are. if they were said by anyone and

how phenomenally ridiculous these words are coming out of rush limbaugh's ravenous mouth, the most morbidly obese commentator in the history of politics. actually said this. >> michelle, my belle, minus the husband took the kids out to vail on a ski vacation, and they were spotted eating, and they were feasting on ribs, ribs that were 1,575 calories per serving with 141 grams of fat per serving. now, i'm sure some of you, members of the new castrata, this is typical of you, what do mr. limbaugh take an isolated once in a lifetime experience and say she is a hypocrite. she is a hypocrite. leaders are supposed to be leaders. if we're supposed to go out and eat nothing.

if we're supposed to eat roots and berries and tree bark, show us how. and it is supposed to make us fit, if it's supposed to make us healthier, show us how. >> of course, michelle obama never said that we have to be perfect alt every meal. she's repeatedly made the point that healthy eating is a matter of overall balance. >> look, no one wants to give up sunday meal, no one wants to say good-bye to mac and cheese and fried chicken and mashed potatoes, oh, i'm getting hungry. forever, no one wants to do that, not even the obamas, trust me. >> rush limbaugh like sarah palin has to lie about what michelle obama has been saying in order to attack her because what the first lady has been saying about healthy eating and childhood obesity is correct and unassailable and sarah palin and rush limbaugh knows that but attacking the obamas is a hatred reflex they cannot stop.

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the front-runner in the campaign for mayor of new york, christine quinn received the endorsement today of sandra fluke. >> i've watched her leadership ainge i know she's someone who

is going to champion the communities i care about. these going to stand up for women's rights. she's going to stand up for gay rights. she has the experience. she has the leadership and when it comes down to it she has the seriousness and maturity to handle the office of mayor of new york. >> anthony weiner struggled with a new problem in the campaign today after an angry encounter with one of the lesser known candidates in the race, george mcdonald. >> there you go. i heard what you said. don't put your hands on me ever again. keep your hands off me. >> what's going to happen? are you going to get tough? >> yeah, yeah, i am. >> joining me is hunter walker, reporter for talking points memo covering the new york mayoral race. hunter, so there's anthony weiner angrily calling mcdonald grandpa using it as an epithet. he's 69 years old, i believe the sitting mayor of new york is 71

and was about 68 when he was re-elected to a third term, not sure that the voters of new york are with anthony weiner on that particular attack. >> well, you know, also this incident took place before a forum that was co-hosted by aarp. >> yes. >> so it's -- >> the american association of retired people. there might have been some 69-year-olds in that audience. >> yeah, and, you know, also the older segment of the electorate is actually disproportionately large so in a city where basically less than 1/8 of the population is expected to vote he took a shot of a really large segment of that electorate. >> they are the most faithful voters. >> absolutely. >> they show up. now, this sandra fluke endorsement, a national figure, a great -- has great support and following in new york city, but does that kind of thing have much of an impact in a mayor's race? >> you know, chris quinn is currently the front-runner through her name recognition,

but, you know, these rivals of hers in the runoff when it comes down to sort of the top two people you may see the opposition consolidate against her and has this national buzz, would be the first woman mayor and also a high-powered consulting firm that also represents sandra fluke, so all these things mean she does get national figures like sandra, like edie windsor but the polls right now are showing if she's in a runoff against anyone but weiner she's in trouble. >> one of her problems in a way she has too much experience in the sense that she's been in city hall for so long, she's got a lot of things on her record there that aren't easy to answer on a debate stage and it seems to me someone like sandra fluke elevates her beyond that that's whey think the advantage of the fluke endorsement is it's not

about city hall. it's not about, you know, what did christine quinn do to help bloomberg to be able run for a third term. none of that is present in that kind of endorsement. >> you're totally right and when i talk about the opposition consolidating against her it's a lot about the they remember term and parochial issues like paid sick leave and this is sort of chris quinn showing she has national star power and the ability to rise above all that so we'll see if it works. >> and the other candidates -- the other candidates, are they exploiting the opening that anthony weiner has given them? >> well, you know, we're seeing weiner support go off to a lot of it to bill de blasio so he is surging right now and came into sort of the top three in this race because if you dial down into the polling numbers the remaining support if he starts to shed that moves move ev